I completely understand that situation.
I'm 19 years old, I'm from Guatemala and my mother was diagnosed with Kidney failure last year, but she was diagnosed with diabetes 18 years ago.
I actually take care of her, in my entire life I have been surrounded by medicine, treatments and all that stuff. We constantly go to the emergency room and it's a daily fight for the life.
It's exhausting as well, because I'm a single child and all the work is upon me. I have to dress her, feed her and all those things plus I have to go work and to the college.
It's very hard because I had to assume the adult work since I was very young.

Everything that now 32-yo said resonated with me. I started taking care of my mother when I was 12. I also was told to lie at school. The reality is that children put in that position are robbed of their childhoods. If you want to help youth whose parents need care change the system one community at a time. Children should not be primary caregivers because they haven't fully developed into adults themselves. That doesn't mean they can't help out with small tasks like cooking a meal or doing a load of laundry. Those build self-esteem. Keeping secrets and telling lies to protect an adult erode self esteem. I'm not surprised the 32-yo has serious psychological damage from her childhood experiences. She has my sympathy. My mother died before I turned 20. It was both heartbreaking and a huge relief. It took a year of psychiatry to get me functional again. Not everyone has those resources, which is why I firmly believe children should not be primary caregivers.